Josh Dehaas: There was no sedition, Mr. Carney

There was never any question what Prime Minister Mark Carney thought about the Freedom Convoy protesters in Ottawa. In a Globe and Mail op-ed published on Feb. 7, 2022, the “Ottawa resident and former governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England” wrote that the convoy was “terrorizing” people, that women were being forced to “flee abuse,” and that the elderly were “afraid to venture outside their homes.” He accused the organizers of “blatant treachery” and “sedition,” and proposed the government respond by “choking off the money.”

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EU liberals pitch NATO-style trade pact with Canada, Japan and South Korea

The European liberal political family is urging EU leaders to form a pact with Japan, Canada, and South Korea to deter U.S. President Donald Trump and China from exerting undue pressure on trade partners, according to a paper seen by POLITICO.

In what is dubbed a “Geoeconomic Deterrence Pact” addressed to EU leaders ahead of a summit in Brussels on Thursday, the liberal Renew Europe group in the European Parliament asks the Commission “to identify and negotiate joint export control agreements” by the end of 2026. The paper will be published late Wednesday and sent to EU leaders.

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As Carney Travels the Globe for New Alliances, He Looks Away on Human Rights

Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada became a diplomatic celebrity after delivering an electrifying speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, declaring that President Trump had permanently ruptured the rules-based world order.

He told the leaders to put their nations’ interests first, not placate Mr. Trump and form new alliances.

Mr. Carney has crisscrossed the globe — this year he has already circled the world twice — seeking to heed his own message by forging relationships with countries that will make Canada far less dependent on the United States.

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Liberal government appeals ruling against use of Emergencies Act to Supreme Court

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is honking its final horn in its legal battle to validate its use of the Emergencies Act to deal with the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government filed its application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) on Tuesday in the hopes that the highest court in the land will overturn two earlier decisions that ruled the use of the draconian act was unjustified as a way to stop the protests.

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Border agency ‘systemic collapse’ allows man found guilty of immigration fraud to walk free and sue Canada

Gurpreet Singh, a 40-year-old Indian national, is suing the Canadian government and employees of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), alleging they prosecuted him maliciously and violated his charter rights.

It’s the latest twist in a massive immigration fraud saga in Saskatchewan that has been winding its way through the justice system for many years.

At the heart of that drama lies a big mistake by the CBSA.

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Canada’s Conservatives Want Chinese EVs Barred and Their Software Banned

Canada’s Conservative opposition leader Pierre Poilievre on Sunday unveiled a plan to double the country’s vehicle production.

Polievre called for a tariff-free auto pact with the United States while pledging to scrap both the Liberal government’s Chinese EV import quota and its electric vehicle mandate.

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New survey finds nearly half of Canadians are living paycheque to paycheque

Many Canadians are continuing to struggle to pay their bills each month, feeling the financial squeeze with housing costs, price of groceries, and now the rising gas prices due to the war in Iran.

According to a new survey conducted by Vividata, one out of three people is unable to pay off their credit card bills each month and almost half say they’re living paycheque to paycheque.

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Canada Bars a Senior Chinese Police Officer Over Crimes Against Humanity — as Carney Deepens Ties With the Same Security Apparatus

OTTAWA — A senior officer of China’s Public Security Bureau who spent more than three decades supervising interrogations and detentions in Hebei Province has been barred from Canadian permanent residency — along with his wife and child — after a federal immigration officer found reasonable grounds to believe he was complicit in the systematic torture of criminal suspects.

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CHARLEBOIS: Canada’s food inflation slowing — but the squeeze isn’t over

Among the G7 countries, Canada still posts the highest food inflation rate

Canada’s food inflation rate eased to 5.4% in February 2026, down from 7.3% previously. At first glance, this looks like progress. But the reality behind the numbers suggests Canadians shouldn’t celebrate just yet.

Food inflation remains 3.6 percentage points above overall inflation, which means groceries are still becoming more expensive faster than most other goods in the economy. While the pace of increase has slowed, the pressure on household budgets has not disappeared.

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OLDCORN: Canadian Anti-Hate Network founder on Ottawa’s ‘online safety panel’ is the wrong call

Anti-Zionism will receive a shot in the arm.

Ottawa has reconvened its Expert Advisory Group on Online Safety, and one name is a cause for concern, Bernie Farber. The announcement from Canadian Heritage says Farber, founding chair emeritus of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network (CAHN), will again help guide federal policy on “online harms.”

The same release also says the panel’s 2022 advice helped shape Bill C-63, the Online Harms Act, which later died in January 2025. That alone should have set off alarm bells in Ottawa.

(Incognito)

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John Ivison: Europe lets Carney lead on poking the Trump bear

President Donald Trump’s late-night musing about Venezuela potentially becoming the 51st state was likely well received in the Prime Minister’s Office.

It suggests that Mark Carney’s speech in Davos — widely viewed as standing up to the bully president — has persuaded Trump to move on and find an easier target than Canada or Greenland.

That may be temporary, of course, given the president’s mercurial nature.

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Study accuses Carney Liberals of ‘substantially’ worsening federal finances

Prime Minister Mark Carney plans to spend more and run deficits more than twice as large over the next five years compared to those planned by the previous Liberal government, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute.

As a result, Carney’s combined deficits are projected to total $321.7 billion from 2025-26 to 2029-30 — $167.3 billion higher than the $154.4 billion former prime minister Justin Trudeau was projected to spend during the same period, according to the report by the fiscally conservative think-tank.

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GIESBRECHT: IRGC is already here — Canada must stop being a safe haven for Iran’s enforcers

On March 5, the body of Masood Majoody was found. Majoody was a mathematics professor at Simon Fraser University but was also a vocal critic of the theocratic Iranian regime. He went missing in February 2026, and foul play was suspected. Sure enough, police have now arrested and charged two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) members, Mehdi Razavi and Arezou Soltani, with his murder.

The war in Iran has come to Canada. IRGC collaborators are being charged with the murder.


Carney loves Shia values.

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“De Facto” Communist Party Intelligence Arm Met With Chrétien and Senator Woo During Canada Visit, Beijing Readout Shows

OTTAWA – A senior official from the Chinese Communist Party’s International Department met with former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and Trudeau-appointed Senator Yuen Pau Woo during a four-day visit to Canada in March — a significant development given that Germany’s domestic intelligence service warned in 2023 that the body effectively operates like an intelligence service of the People’s Republic of China. The meetings were documented in a readout and photographs published on the department’s official website.

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